Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-10
A PrellmlaaFy saFvey.

Port AN0EL0A May She barb
Elsinors IN port. QO1dy. Fresh wssl
wind.
Saw FaASso1sco, May g. - Sailed -
BARK Fresno. Paeet sound.
sENDAK DSsRArCMKs.
An Array sf InieresTlnG news Iteml
From AlI Parts ef the werSd.
Rsunisa oT Greek and Latin ChurcAss.
RoAEE, May al is stated that the
Pope and Car are negotiatinR through
q nohls Lombard monk with = visW Of
the reunion Of the Creek and Latin
churches.
Wsrk sf . nss slroees.
vIxxxA. Nay & "A bot Sirocco blew
during the whole week throughout Hun
gary. Il has scorched the vegetation,
rendering u iRilamAble. Az Tcroxko
800 houses we're burned aud four lives
we're lost. The ooufagration lasted
two days. Al RuskberR the the church
and thirty seven houses we're destroyed
aud the cemetery vas devastated.
New Eerk's s9naay Raw Enforued.
NEw YoRK, Nay S.-Nev Y0gkeFs went
thirsty today. The opinion Of the Cor
poration's Attorney a. rendered last
week announced thai restaurants we're
restrained BY Law from supplying their
guests With LIQUOR at meals. This de-
cision carried terror 10 the average hotel
man, Who had hitherto felt that the
blue lass would nos touch bis privileges.
The hotel bars were ell closed. Besr,
- Awte 49, a4a -
amy Of the hotels. Cards we're dis
dav afternoon Announcing that the bars
desired eject. The guests laid IN 3
supply Of the '.nsedful" 10 carry them
over the day. Fever drunken men we're
seen on the streets than on any Sunday
for some time. At the weekly meeting
Of the Manhattan Temperance Ass0cia-
ton In the Masonic Temple today NJ.
NJ. (Briok) Pomeroy spoke Of the Sun
day blus laws. He thought that the
passage OF the Carter bill BY the Legis
lsture vas an outrage. The Cooper
Union macs meeting last night 10 oppose
the blue laws is said 10 have shown the
power Of the liquor interest and 10 need.
cd cheek. Mayor Hewitt was praised
Ger enforcing the sunday laws. The
German singing societies met aeain TO
day. Il vas reported that q COMMITTEES
Of three have visited Albany and mott
fed the Committee on City Legislation
that the future political action Of the
Germans depended on the settlement Of
the excise trs0ble in satisfactory man
neF. The Garter bill vas said 10 be the
result OF thai eomnittee's work.
Report Of Clearing Houses.
BOSTON, May The managers Of the
leading clearing houses IN the United
States report the total gross exchanges
for the week ending May Z. 10 be 81
5.075. .O6l, an increase Of l2.l per cent.
General GreeIy's weather BuIlctln.
WAsHNarox, May s.-General Greely
chief signal officer, has arranged %
issue. beginning With today, Q special
weekly bulletin with view Of promptly
placing before the publio each Monday
morning reliable Information relative 30
the climatic conditions Of the aQrionl-
tural districts Of the o0uatry. IL is be
lieved that these bulletins containing
dsfisiencies or excessss relative 10 ten.
peratuTes and rainfall during the grow
ing season viii serve as q reliable basis
for determining the conditions fav0ra-
BILE or unfavsrabls fos growing erops.
Following is the weather and srop bal
letin for the week ending Saturday,
May Z, 1881:
SIGNAL OEEECx,
WkGHrNoTos, May s. 1881. (
The temperature tduring the present
year commencing With January lst and
ending on May 1st) Of the weather has
been colder than usual IN the States
bordering on the Atlantic Coast and
from New ENGLAND westward over the
Great Lakes, the upper Mississippi and
the Missouri valley 10 the Rocky Noun
tain region, the greatest cold being IL
the States bordering on the Great Lake.
and thence westward 70 the Missouri
river, over which aFsa the daily NEAR
temperatures frsm January lst 10 dats
ranged from 800 degrees to 900 degrees
tan average daily dafeieney sf froE
about Is degrees 70 3 degrses).
In northern New Eagland and II
the South AtlaRtie states the total de
ncseney in Temperature ranges from lOl
10 800 degrees, or an average OF frOu
about ! 20 2 degrees colder than usual
The weather has been warmer thar
usual since January 1st In the East and
West 6ulf States. Tennessee, Kentucky
Wesa Virginia. and IN the northern por
tioas Of OhiO, Illinois and Missouri. ths
aggregate excess of daily man temper
aturs from January Isi 10 date vaFyirf
| from 100 20 30 degrees over tbs vholl
region named. Daring the week end
/ ing Nay 7, 1887, the tempegature hal
been warmer thAn the average for thai
week IN all districts east Of the Rocky
M0ustaina. except the floFida penin
sala and Texas. lbs inereass Of ten.
peFatuFe over the normal for the weei
IN the whsaf and corn regions noFth ol
the A0th parallel Of latitude has aver
aQsa shout 50 degrees, and this excesI
hss therefore oaussd . rapid advance oi
the season over she region vhsre 10 Il
mach retarded.
In tie south the region Of sxcesaiv,
temperatuFs has FecsiVed q stiil furthsi
inersass, and Along the Atlantic Cess
/ the excess Of temperature for she wee
ranged from Is 20 50 degrees. therebJ
refusing the dedeianay IN temperAtars
fer the season In thess States and Civ
inR esnditions fsvoFsbls 10 all agFioul
tnral intsrsats.
Regarding TIE rainfall daring ths
season ff0m January 20 May /. 1851
there las been . large dshciensy "a
rainfall IN The Northern States r4agiDs
from six 90 nine inches IN the Gull
States and the interior ~ TIE south A.
laatic 5tatsa Ths aeasieBcy In tbs
grain regions 81 the BorthVssi has bSer
siiRht. ranging froD sue 70 three inches
IN the lever Misssuri valley, and SFsF-
aging sboat one inon 10 the uppsr Ms
sissippi valley regionas FhovinR exee1l
Of pfeeipitatl0n for TIE season - fol
lows: kofthern Nsu Engiand. dadson
river valley. upper Oai0 valley, stations
ON Lake Erie, and to eastcga AiebiQan
ard IN the western poFtien. ef Kansas
a1d Nebrasks, greatest exosss, rasRiua
from three 70 fo1r inches f0F The season,
covering usrthern and western Ohio
The western portions % PeDnsyiyania
and New York- sight dehsieneies 10
rainfall fog The season are reported ffOu
central and sSathsrn California d1F
iaG he vesk sndi1E Aay 7, 1881. DaE
Ing thaa week raiGfalls 10 the northern
portions of Wisoo1sin, Ainnsssla and
/ Dakota. and ia tha western Calf States
10 central Mississippi. nsFthsrn
Gs0rEsa and os1tgal Alabans have bees